Actually, America said "Because you think loving our child is your weakness." Which has another meaning entirely.
It means that America doesn't think loving his children is a weakness. He's deriding Russia for thinking of their child as something like that.
What I love about this fic is that America IS manipulative here, and certainly playing his baby daddies, but that he's not doing it because he's a bastard. He's doing it because of what's been done to him.
Think about it: England starts sleeping with him when he's much too young. He strikes back by sleeping with Holland. France and England fought over him and Canada, and separated him from his brother for years. Because of that, he keeps his children from their fathers because he doesn't trust them... and for good reason. He's trying to protect his children, who he loves. And as implied by what he says to Russia, he sees that love as a strength. Those nations didn't get him pregnant because they love him and wanted to be with him, they used him. (France admits America doesn't belong to him and that they have other partners.) Why should they get to claim his children? They USED him, just as much as he did any of them.
It means that America doesn't think loving his children is a weakness. He's deriding Russia for thinking of their child as something like that.
What I love about this fic is that America IS manipulative here, and certainly playing his baby daddies, but that he's not doing it because he's a bastard. He's doing it because of what's been done to him.
Think about it: England starts sleeping with him when he's much too young. He strikes back by sleeping with Holland. France and England fought over him and Canada, and separated him from his brother for years. Because of that, he keeps his children from their fathers because he doesn't trust them... and for good reason. He's trying to protect his children, who he loves. And as implied by what he says to Russia, he sees that love as a strength. Those nations didn't get him pregnant because they love him and wanted to be with him, they used him. (France admits America doesn't belong to him and that they have other partners.) Why should they get to claim his children? They USED him, just as much as he did any of them.
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